# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/lesley-nneka-arimah
# Generated: 2026-08-15T02:42:11.103Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/lesley-nneka-arimah"
name: "Lesley Nneka Arimah"
slug: "lesley-nneka-arimah"
description: "Lesley Nneka Arimah is a Nigerian writer. She has been described as \"a skillful storyteller who can render entire relationships with just a few lines of dialogue\" and \"a new voice with certain staying power\". She is the winner of the 2015 Commonwealth Short Story Prize for Africa, the 2017 O. Henry Prize, the 2017 Kirkus Prize, and the 2019 Caine Prize for African Writing."
tagline: "Nigerian-American writer (born 1983)"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "Nigeria"
  isoCode: "NG"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1983-10-13"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           44.86
  momentum:             12.77821011673152
  historical:           9.676638666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/larimah"
    handle:    "larimah"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://www.larimah.com"
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%B2%D9%84%D9%89_%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%83%D8%A7_%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%85%D8%A7"
    title: "ليزلى نيكا اريما"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Lesley Nneka Arimah"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesley_Nneka_Arimah"
    title: "Lesley Nneka Arimah"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesley_Nneka_Arimah"
    title: "Lesley Nneka Arimah"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesley_Nneka_Arimah"
    title: "Lesley Nneka Arimah"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesley_Nneka_Arimah"
    title: "Lesley Nneka Arimah"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesley_Nneka_Arimah"
    title: "Lesley Nneka Arimah"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesley_Nneka_Arimah"
    title: "Lesley Nneka Arimah"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesley_Nneka_Arimah"
    title: "Lesley Nneka Arimah"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesley_Nneka_Arimah"
    title: "Lesley Nneka Arimah"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Lesley_Nneka_Arimah"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q45849301"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump